South Asian governmentalities : Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings /
South Asian governmentalities : Michel Foucault and the question of postcolonial orderings /
edited by Stephen Legg, Deana Heath.
- 1 online resource (vi, 269 pages)
- South Asia in the social sciences .
- South Asia in the social sciences. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing South Asian governmentalities / Deana Heath and Stephen Legg -- Governmentality in the East / Partha Chatterjee -- Pastoral care, the reconstitution of pastoral power and the creation of disobedient subjects under colonialism / Indrani Chatterjee -- The abiding binary: the social and the political in modern India / Prathama Banerjee -- Colonial and nationalist truth regimes: empire, Europe and the latter Foucault / Stephen Legg -- Law as economy/economy as governmentality: convention, corporation, currency / Ritu Birla -- Do elephants have souls? Animal subjectivities and colonial encounters / Jonathan Saha -- Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India / Sarah Hodges -- Changing the subject: from feminist governmentality to technologies of the (feminist) self / Srila Roy -- The tortured body: the irrevocable tension between sovereign and biopower in colonial Indian technologies of rule / Deana Heath -- The subject in question / Gerry Kearns.
This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive disciplinary fields of governmentality - a concept introduced by Foucault himself - and South Asian studies. It aims to chart the intersection of post-structuralism and postcolonialism that has seen the latter Foucault being used to ask new questions in and of South Asia, and the experiences of post-colonies used to tease and test the utility of European philosophy beyond Europe. But it also seeks to contribute to the rich body of work on South Asian governmentalities through a critical engagement with the lecture series delivered by Foucault at the Coll�ge de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English.
9781108571982 1108571980 9781108598873 1108598870
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Political science--Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Reference.
Political science--Philosophy.
South Asia.
South Asia.
Electronic books.
JQ98 / .S68 2018
320.954
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing South Asian governmentalities / Deana Heath and Stephen Legg -- Governmentality in the East / Partha Chatterjee -- Pastoral care, the reconstitution of pastoral power and the creation of disobedient subjects under colonialism / Indrani Chatterjee -- The abiding binary: the social and the political in modern India / Prathama Banerjee -- Colonial and nationalist truth regimes: empire, Europe and the latter Foucault / Stephen Legg -- Law as economy/economy as governmentality: convention, corporation, currency / Ritu Birla -- Do elephants have souls? Animal subjectivities and colonial encounters / Jonathan Saha -- Plastic history, caste and the government of things in modern India / Sarah Hodges -- Changing the subject: from feminist governmentality to technologies of the (feminist) self / Srila Roy -- The tortured body: the irrevocable tension between sovereign and biopower in colonial Indian technologies of rule / Deana Heath -- The subject in question / Gerry Kearns.
This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive disciplinary fields of governmentality - a concept introduced by Foucault himself - and South Asian studies. It aims to chart the intersection of post-structuralism and postcolonialism that has seen the latter Foucault being used to ask new questions in and of South Asia, and the experiences of post-colonies used to tease and test the utility of European philosophy beyond Europe. But it also seeks to contribute to the rich body of work on South Asian governmentalities through a critical engagement with the lecture series delivered by Foucault at the Coll�ge de France from 1971 until his death in 1984, which have now become available in English.
9781108571982 1108571980 9781108598873 1108598870
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
Political science--Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Government--National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Reference.
Political science--Philosophy.
South Asia.
South Asia.
Electronic books.
JQ98 / .S68 2018
320.954